Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.
Life is a game in which happiness is the goal.
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Happiness is what you choose to remember.
Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.
I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
Money cannot buy happiness.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.
Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.